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How To Write Query Letters ... or, really, how to revise query letters so they actually work

Saturday, June 25, 2011

#206

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Dear Query Shark: A helicopter crashes. An airport is closed. Traffic blocks a highway. Are they related? Is it terrorism? Or somethi...
23 comments:
Sunday, June 19, 2011

#205-Revised

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(date) You don't need the date in the body of a query letter.  I know when you sent it because my email management program tells me. ...
39 comments:
Saturday, June 11, 2011

#204-Revised

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Dear Query Shark Maya will do anything to save Matthew, including pose as Arthur’s girlfriend, if he makes sure her young protégée’s medic...
24 comments:

#203-revised 2x

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Dear Query Shark: When Amanda Shaw is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, she figures she's in for the most boring two mon...
56 comments:
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Very perplexing complaint

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I don't get many complaints about QueryShark. In fact, none before this one. Recently I sent a link to the QS to someone querying me. ...
104 comments:
Sunday, April 24, 2011

#201-Revised

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Dear Query Shark, Pygmalionism gone awry, RUTHLESS AMBITION explores the life of Cassie Kincaid, an unattractive schizophrenic whose self-...
34 comments:
Sunday, April 10, 2011

#200-revised 2x

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Dear Query Shark, Looking back, 16-year-old Marine Desmona can clearly count every one of her stupid mistakes. story starts here ------...
31 comments:
Sunday, March 20, 2011

#199-FTW

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Dearest Agent; Ha! Dear QueryShark: Emily Jacobs, a senior at Maryland, is off for the summer. The last thing she remembers is walking ...
53 comments:
Sunday, March 13, 2011

#198

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Dear QueryShark: Preparing to tape the races on the river, 'Mac' McCaskill stumbled on a brutal execution style murder. Even more...
25 comments:
Saturday, February 26, 2011

#197-Revised once

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Dear Query Shark, Neither of Susan’s parents were dentists, yet they molded their Southern belle to make a perfect impression. Translati...
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#196-FTW

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 Dear Query Shark, Part warm body, part social chameleon, fourths have become an accepted part of the commuting landscape. Since E very ...
44 comments:
Sunday, February 20, 2011

#195-Revised 3x

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Seventeen-year-old hard rock drummer and cupcake addict Zach Pembrook writes a song that inadvertently draws the attention of the world and...
55 comments:
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